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homicidal

homicidal adjective: of or pertaining to homicide.

Adjective

homicidal (comparative more homicidal, superlative most homicidal)

  1. Of or pertaining to homicide.
    • The current editor-in-chief, Stagyar-zil-Doggo, was a dangerously unbalanced man who took a homicidal view of contributing staff turning up in his office without pages of fresh, proofed copy, […]1992, Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 46
    • An apparent deterioration in productivity during the twentieth century [in the northern Horn] has undoubtedly been linked with the enormous increase in human population brought about by a combination of improved medical facilities and the discouragement of homicidal activities.2012, David W. Phillipson, Foundations of an African Civilisation. Aksum & the northern Horn, 1000 BC–AD 1300, Woodbridge, Suffolk: James Currey, page 9
  2. Having an inclination to commit homicide.

homicidal meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

homicidal in Bengali

নরহত্যা সংক্রান্ত, নরহত্যা করার প্রবণতা থাকা

homicidal in Malayalam

murderous, violent, brutal
നരഹത്യയായ, നരഹത്യയെ സംബന്ധിച്ച, കൊലപാതകത്തെസംബന്ധിച്ച, മാരകമായ, കൊലസംബന്ധിച്ച, നിഹന്തൃ

Forms of homicidal

comparativemore homicidal
superlativemost homicidal

Origin of homicidal

From homicide + -al.

Words formed from homicidal

Words that rhyme with homicidal

Questions about homicidal

What does homicidal mean?
Homicidal means of or pertaining to homicide.
What is homicidal in Bengali?
Homicidal in Bengali is নরহত্যা সংক্রান্ত, নরহত্যা করার প্রবণতা থাকা. See Homicidal meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is homicidal?
Homicidal is an adjective.

Words near homicidal in the dictionary

  1. homeyness
  2. homeys
  3. Homfray
  4. homi
  5. homichlophobia
  6. homicidal
  7. homicidal necrophiliac
  8. homicidality
  9. homicidally
  10. homicide
  11. homicider

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: homicidal (page history and authors); homicidal (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); homicidal (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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